Adolph Rastén

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Adolph Rastén (born July 21, 1913 in Copenhagen ; † May 21, 1993 ibid) was a Danish journalist, foreign correspondent and publicist.

Life

Adolph Rastén's father, master tailor Salomon Wolff Rastén (1889–1939) and his mother, seamstress Elka Elkanowitz (1886–1972) were Jewish emigrants who fled to Denmark in 1906 from the pogroms of Tsarist Russia. Rasten had two younger sisters, the twins Lea and Rachel . The latter made a career as a pop singer from the 1950s . He received his journalistic training at Holbæk Amtstidende , where he was employed as an editor from 1935 to October 1943 - the Rastén family had to flee a second time because of the occupation by the German Wehrmacht and ended up in Sweden through the unprecedented rescue of Danish Jews . Rastén then worked for the Danish Press Service in Stockholm and Helsinki until the end of World War II . After the war he remained a foreign correspondent in Stockholm; initially for various newspapers, from 1947 to 1949 then exclusively for national politics . For this newspaper he also reported from Bonn for ten years from 1949 . In 1960 the edition of Willy Brandt's My Way to Berlin , which he translated into Danish , was published in Copenhagen's Schønbergske Forlag . All of Rastén's important contributions to the Social Democratic Press Service from the 1960s have also been preserved in the Bonn Archive of Social Democracy (FES).

Rastén became known to a wider audience through his sovereign appearance on the ARD program Der Internationale Frühschoppen in December 1959. At that time, host Werner Höfer did not succeed in convincingly defending his aversion to the flag of the GDR, even against his foreign guests.

Adolph Rastén still worked for Ekstra Bladet and Danmarks Radio (1961-67), but in 1973 returned to Denmark for good. There he wrote several books of political content and delivered high-quality radio reports from the Middle East, among others .

Adolph Rastén died in his hometown of Copenhagen at the age of 79. He was buried in the Jewish West Cemetery there.

His son Finn Rastén is a travel writer and editor-in-chief of the Danish lifestyle magazine La France .

Literature (selection)

  • 1945: Finlands Mørketid
  • 1965: Vest-Tyskland. Etter Krigen (Norwegian translation; Publisher: H. Aschehoug & Co. Oslo)
  • 1965: Grækenland og enhedideen
  • 1967: Kungen och den grekiska tragedin (translated into Swedish by Bo-Lennart Eklund)
  • 1971: Fællesmarkedet - et politisk magtspil

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kvininfo.de: Rachel Rastenni (1915–1998) (Danish; accessed August 1, 2014)
  2. ↑ Adolph Rastén in: The Werner Höfer Show . Cover story of the issue of DER SPIEGEL 50/1959 (accessed on July 31, 2014)
  3. ↑ gravsted.dk: Adolph Rastén - Dansk journalist, udenrigskorrespondent og forfatter (Danish; accessed on August 1, 2014)
  4. ↑ lafrance.nu: La France - Mediaplan 2014 / p.2) (English; accessed on August 1, 2014)
  5. ↑ Stockholm City Library; 187 pp. (Accessed on August 2, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Rastén, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish journalist, foreign correspondent and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1993
Place of death Copenhagen